The manufacturing industry is a major source of global carbon dioxide emissions. Industrial production will continue to shift to emerging and developing economies. New investments are needed in low-carbon technologies to align industry’s growth with countries’ net-zero emission targets. In...

At a time when global trade is under pressure and countries increasingly turn to regional integration to support their development, this Spotlight is a timely read for policy makers and business leaders in Africa and beyond. It shows how harnessing the African Continental Free Trade Area...

Industrial subsidies take on a growing importance in trade discussions. Yet assessing the scope and scale of government interventions in manufacturing remains notoriously difficult due to a persistent lack of reliable and comparable data. With many governments failing to provide sufficient...

This dataset comprises statistics on the number of active trade union members and the number of wage and salary earners. Data on union membership are broken down by source of data (administrative or survey data).Membership corresponds to the number of wage and salary earners that are members of...

This dataset comprises statistics on the number of active trade union members and the number of wage and salary earners. Data on union membership are broken down by source of data (administrative or survey data).Membership corresponds to the number of wage and salary earners that are members of...

At the end of 1997, Korea was hit by a major financial and economic crisis, which resulted, among other things, in a huge rise in unemployment. The event caught the country’s labour and social institutions unprepared, so that many workers and their families were hit hard. The economy has now...

On associe souvent les pays de l’OCDE à des « sociétés en réseau » et cette évolution conduit à s’interroger sur le rôle des réseaux éducatifs. D’aucuns, comme le Professeur Michael Barber dans ce volume, prédisent l’effondrement des grands services publics, dont...

Ce rapport traite plus particulièrement des deux examens de l'OCDE consacrés aux systèmes nationaux de R-D en éducation (Angleterre et Nouvelle-Zélande). Il révèle que les pays de l'OCDE prennent de plus en plus de mesures novatrices liées à la recherche afin d’améliorer la base de...